Inequity in Education

A Historical Perspective

Debra Meyers, Burke Miller

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2009
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780739133996
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Theory & Practice

Inequity in Education represents the latest scholarship investigating issues of race, class, ethnicity, religion, gender, and national identity formation that influenced education in America throughout its history. Targeting sophisticated undergraduates along with graduate students and specialists, this exciting new collection will capitalize on the growing interest in the historical foundations of the problems facing our schools today.

This collection of cutting-edge essays and primary source documents represents a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives that will appeal to both social and cultural historians as well as those who teach education courses, including introductory surveys and foundations courses.

Table of contents

• Introduction
• 1 The Unequal Status of Children in American Educational History: Historiographical Reflections and Theoretical Possibilities
• 2 The Cornerstone of the Republic: George Washington and the National University
• 3 No Acknowledged Standard: The Female Seminary Curriculum of the Early Nineteenth Century
• 4 The Training an Orphan Requires: Education in Nineteenth-Century New York City Orphan Asylums
• 5 The Idea of Integration in the Age of Horace Mann
• 6 The Race Problem and American Education in the Early Twentieth Century
• 7 Vocational Education, Work Culture, and the Children of European Immigrants during the 1930s
• 8 The “Separate but Equal” Schools of Monongalia County, West Virginia’s Coal Mining Communities
• 9 Christian Day Schools and the Transformation of Conservative Evangelical Protestant Educational Activism, 1962–1990
• 10 The Austin T.E.A. Party: Homeschooling Controversy in Texas, 1986 –1994
• 11 Changing Visions for Jesuit High Schools in America: The Case of Campion Jesuit High School, 1965 –1975
• 12 The National Education Association: Champion of Equality in Education or Roadblock to Change?
• Index
• About the Contributors